Spring break is basically over...no bueno homie! <--this came from my girl date with Kasee last night...we were at Chik-Fil-A and I don't remember which one of us said it, but we thought it was just hilarious and declared it is our new saying. We said it quite often at camp today!
I love this Today's Letters thing...I like it because it's a quick, fun way to journal about my day and what's going on in my life at the moment. I have always been an avid journaling gal, and recently it's gotten pushed behind the back burner and this makes me sad. I love looking back through old journals and seeing how much I have changed over time, as well as how I have stayed completely the same in so many ways! Thanks again Kasee Michelle for telling me about it! :)
Today's Letters
Dear Spring Break Campers, I will miss y'all. You were fun to hang out with this week...even the times when you got annoying and whiney and got on my nerves...I hope to see all of you again this summer at summer camps (assuming I get to work them as well!). Dear Kasee, Thanks so much for being such a fantastic best friend! I had such a good time hanging out with you last night and I am looking forward to hanging out more this summer. You were an awesome camp director this week!!! Love ya girl! Dear Santa Fe, Dinner was fantastic tonight. You have disappointed me the past several times I have been to visit, but tonight was grand. Muy bueno homie! Dear Homie Z, I haven't gotten to talk to you much today and that's always weird. Hope you've had a good time in Missouri though, with your fellow engineers. I am somewhat really super de-duper excited to see you in t-minus 2 days :)
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
30 days...
That's when I graduate from college...in a mere 30 days...holy.moly.cow...I am so not ready for it. I am excited but at the same time I am terrified. I'm not even going to lie about it, or try to lie about it - I am so not ready to have to be a big girl! I am going to miss college. I am going to miss my friends. We won't even get started on how much I am going to miss seeing my boy every day for a while. I feel like a new adventure is getting ready to start for me, though, and for that, I am excited. Knowing that God has it all planned makes it even better...even if I do struggle with being patient while waiting on Him to reveal these plans to me.
Thank you Kasee for telling me about the letters blog...I read it and fell in love and am going to attempt to do that on here now! Maybe, at least for a while, it'll keep me blogging on a regular schedule. :) I'm glad that I'm too busy to blog lately though, also like you said Kasee, I'd rather live life than just report it.
Dear Spring Break, I have thoroughly enjoyed you but I wish you would last a little longer. I will miss sleeping in until 8:00 every morning. Dear Sunburn, it's been good to see you again. Please even out a little bit this year, that is my only request. Dear Kody, You turned 7 this week. That makes me feel old. I remember the night you were born. I love you. I miss you and can't wait to see you again. Dear Zachary Steven, I love you more than I ever thought was possible to love another person. I have missed you so much this week. I'm glad you called me last night and woke me up (okay, maybe I was fully asleep, even though I told you I was only half asleep...) because I love hearing your voice. I can't wait to see you!
Thank you Kasee for telling me about the letters blog...I read it and fell in love and am going to attempt to do that on here now! Maybe, at least for a while, it'll keep me blogging on a regular schedule. :) I'm glad that I'm too busy to blog lately though, also like you said Kasee, I'd rather live life than just report it.
Dear Spring Break, I have thoroughly enjoyed you but I wish you would last a little longer. I will miss sleeping in until 8:00 every morning. Dear Sunburn, it's been good to see you again. Please even out a little bit this year, that is my only request. Dear Kody, You turned 7 this week. That makes me feel old. I remember the night you were born. I love you. I miss you and can't wait to see you again. Dear Zachary Steven, I love you more than I ever thought was possible to love another person. I have missed you so much this week. I'm glad you called me last night and woke me up (okay, maybe I was fully asleep, even though I told you I was only half asleep...) because I love hearing your voice. I can't wait to see you!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
MYANMAR!!! :)
Holy guacamole what a week it has been! I started my second student teaching placement this week, and I'm not gonna lie, it was off to a bit of a rough, discouraging start...but it's getting better! I am liking 6th graders...they are quickly growing on me, I can't deny it. I just can't believe how quickly this semester has gone by...ahhh!
So, today, I found out quite possibly the most exciting news I have gotten in a very long time...I am for sure going to Myanmar in May!!!! Here's the whole story behind this trip...
I first asked Brian (guy in charge) about this trip in, oh, November I think. He told me they would be leaving around May 25...well rats, I'm in a wedding May 26...BUT, he said he wouldn't know a for sure date until the end of February. At the end of January, I turned in my application and deposit, and said if God wants me to go, He will make it possible. Our first meeting was February 18, found out more information about the trip, still not exact date as to when they will leave. Two weeks ago, exactly, Brian called me and said he got their flight schedule and they are leaving May 26 at 1:30...BUT, he sent out an email to everyone, explaining that there was 1 person who couldn't leave and was asking if anyone else could stay behind until Monday to leave...he said he would let me know if anyone contacted him and I was to call him the following Monday by 9:30 a.m. LONGEST 3 DAYS EVER...well, almost. Monday rolls around, I hadn't heard from him, I called him at 9:28 a.m. and left him a message...he text me a few hours later saying he was so sad, no one had contacted him...I started crying, in the middle of class, no lie...but said I figured God has His reasons for not wanting me to go on this trip, I'll sign up to go in December and hopefully it'll work out then. I was SO bummed...so so unbelievably bummed...cried a lot that night. Tuesday morning at 8:01 I checked my phone, as my students were coming into the room, and saw that Brian had called and left me a voicemail...thank goodness my kids went to PE at 8:15...I checked my voicemail, he said he had just received a very interesting email and I needed to call him asap...so I did...he said there is an organization out of Louisville that he has been in contact with, they have an orphanage in Myanmar, they have some guys wanting to go on a trip, they want to go on this trip...they can't leave until Monday May 28..."ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" <---my reaction! So he said he would check into seeing if I could fly with them. I hadn't heard from him since then...he called me today right at the end of my lunch. I answered and said hello, he said, "Hey Natalie, how's it going?" "Good." "Guess what?" "What?" "...you're going to Myanmar...I just bought your tickets." SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!! It has amazed me how God is working things out for this trip...I mean, really, these two guys had NO IDEA that he had sent that email...and the morning after I had just come to terms that I am not meant to go on this trip, they email him and say they want to go...how can anyone tell me that isn't God at work?! Just absolutely mind-blowing. I am beyond excited. It still hasn't totally sunk in.
I can't wait!!!!
So, today, I found out quite possibly the most exciting news I have gotten in a very long time...I am for sure going to Myanmar in May!!!! Here's the whole story behind this trip...
I first asked Brian (guy in charge) about this trip in, oh, November I think. He told me they would be leaving around May 25...well rats, I'm in a wedding May 26...BUT, he said he wouldn't know a for sure date until the end of February. At the end of January, I turned in my application and deposit, and said if God wants me to go, He will make it possible. Our first meeting was February 18, found out more information about the trip, still not exact date as to when they will leave. Two weeks ago, exactly, Brian called me and said he got their flight schedule and they are leaving May 26 at 1:30...BUT, he sent out an email to everyone, explaining that there was 1 person who couldn't leave and was asking if anyone else could stay behind until Monday to leave...he said he would let me know if anyone contacted him and I was to call him the following Monday by 9:30 a.m. LONGEST 3 DAYS EVER...well, almost. Monday rolls around, I hadn't heard from him, I called him at 9:28 a.m. and left him a message...he text me a few hours later saying he was so sad, no one had contacted him...I started crying, in the middle of class, no lie...but said I figured God has His reasons for not wanting me to go on this trip, I'll sign up to go in December and hopefully it'll work out then. I was SO bummed...so so unbelievably bummed...cried a lot that night. Tuesday morning at 8:01 I checked my phone, as my students were coming into the room, and saw that Brian had called and left me a voicemail...thank goodness my kids went to PE at 8:15...I checked my voicemail, he said he had just received a very interesting email and I needed to call him asap...so I did...he said there is an organization out of Louisville that he has been in contact with, they have an orphanage in Myanmar, they have some guys wanting to go on a trip, they want to go on this trip...they can't leave until Monday May 28..."ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" <---my reaction! So he said he would check into seeing if I could fly with them. I hadn't heard from him since then...he called me today right at the end of my lunch. I answered and said hello, he said, "Hey Natalie, how's it going?" "Good." "Guess what?" "What?" "...you're going to Myanmar...I just bought your tickets." SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!! It has amazed me how God is working things out for this trip...I mean, really, these two guys had NO IDEA that he had sent that email...and the morning after I had just come to terms that I am not meant to go on this trip, they email him and say they want to go...how can anyone tell me that isn't God at work?! Just absolutely mind-blowing. I am beyond excited. It still hasn't totally sunk in.
I can't wait!!!!
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